The Crafty Puzzles Company: 08/18/13

Sunday 18 August 2013

Brain Buster Tour in Costa Rica Highlights Alzheimer's Prevention - The Costa Rica Star

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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Aug 19, 2013)

Stick To The Cheeks

Solve the two riddles. The answers should be anagrams of each other.

(Thing 1)

You use me when you want to cook

For friends or family.

But, whether written down or not,

It's best you stick to me.

(Thing 2)

I like to think that I'm a skill,

Not just some old technique.

People do me to their ears,

Or nose, or tongue, or cheek.

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Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (Aug 19, 2013)

Chuck

How much do you know about this action-comedy TV show? Test your knowledge with this quiz.

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Refulgent

re-ful-gent

adjective :: Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid.

"The refulgent rays transformed the interior of the soiled and squalid canvas to the splendor of a palace in the eyes of the dreaming man." --Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Creativity : Taboos

A taboo is an inhibition resulting from social customs or emotional aversion. Taboos serve a useful purpose to society because they prevent people from getting into uncomfortable situations. However, taboos can cause people to ignore certain solutions to problems, even if these solutions are very good.

A popular example is to imagine a pipe stuck in the ground with a ping-pong ball in the bottom. How do you get the ping-pong ball out using a minimum of supplies and without damaging anything? The taboo answer is to pee into the pipe, thus floating the ball out. This is a very effective solution and you may have thought of this answer, but if you had been in a group of people, you probably would not have verbalized it.

Since taboos exist to protect other members of society, you do not need to censor yourself when you are working alone. You might not end up with a taboo solution, but sometimes you must think through incorrect or unacceptable solutions in order to reach a correct one.

Memory : Effective Associations : Craziness

Many mnemonics rely on making visual associations in your mind. The nature of these visualizations has a lot to do with how well you will remember them.

Making crazy associations in your visualizations will help you remember the information later. If you are trying to associate a dog with a stapler, a poor association would be a dog standing on a stapler. The brain filters out and forgets things that are ordinary. If you get a little crazy, you'll have a more memorable association. Maybe you could picture a dog with a stapler for a mouth! In addition to making the images more interesting, crazy associations tend to take more time to form and thus give you a better chance at getting them into your long-term memory.

Here are two techniques that will help make your associations crazier.

1. Try a substitution. For example, substituting a stapler for a dog's mouth.

2. Try an exaggeration. For example, a giant stapler chasing a scared dog down the street.

Australian video games: the shock of the new - The Guardian

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Australian video games: the shock of the new

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Running on the Nintendo 3DS (unusual for an indie title), play is split equally between both screens of the device as you navigate a world of hostile sci-fi robots and jumping puzzles. At the push of a button your physical representation in game can ...

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Meet Hedi Slimane's Go-To Artist - Refinery29

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Rock Steady Walnut and Cherry Dining Table

I want to start out by saying that there’s some contention about what style I designed into our new dining room table. My wife calls it modern farmhouse, but I think it’s more contemporary-Asian-farmhouse, whatever that might be. If anyone has a better description, that would be very helpful!

My walnut and cherry dining table shown is the result of a year of agonizing over details, planning and jointing board edges to get a gap-free top, and more sanding than I care to remember. The walnut started as four 6/4 boards that I trimmed down to fit on my 6” jointer, and I spent several days with my wife flipping and arranging them until we hit on a layout we both loved. The finished top is 1-1/8” thick, 37-1/2” wide and 83” long. The top surface sits 30-1/4” above floor level.

I say that the project took a year, but its conception started about two years ago when my wife and I became tired of feeling seasick every time we ate at or played board games on our previous drop-leaf table, which dated back to about the 1960s. Wobbly would be an understatement. So I set out to start designing as rock-solid a table as I could, deciding that I’d add both mortise and tenon joinery and corner braces from Rockler.

It took us about a year to settle on the final design and choose what types of wood we wanted. For a while I had been considering making it from eucalyptus, but after my experience with the end tables (see my first project), I wanted a harder wood that would stand up to the abuse of check-writing and glasses getting set down on edge. I figured walnut would be tough enough to fit the bill, and if it got some dings in it that would just add to its character.

We got the inspiration for the design from a bagel shop of all places. It had a nice, weathered maple farmhouse table with chunky tapered legs and it had a feeling of permanence about it that said it would probably outlive the store it inhabited. My wife said “that’s exactly the style I want” as soon as she saw it, so I got to the drawing board and designed something close to the original. I get a little bored by single-wood furniture, so I proposed the addition of cherry legs and aprons. My wife thought some walnut trim around the bottom apron lip would tie everything together better, so that was the next thing I added.

One of the things that surprised me was how easy the taper was to add to the legs. I laid out tapers on the two inside faces of each leg and trimmed close to the layout lines on the bandsaw, then leveled everything out with a jack plane. I set my planer to take very light passes and brought the taper to exactly the same place on each leg. All told it only took about 4 hours to square the legs and add tapers.

Finishing was a pretty long process, but I didn’t try to do anything too fancy. For the top I started with Danish oil to bring out the chatoyance in the walnut, then applied 3 coats of gloss wipe-on poly and a final coat of satin. The legs just got two coats of Danish oil and a top coat of satin wipe-on poly. I applied Renaissance paste wax to the top and buffed it, which made the wood pop out and seemed to add more depth than just the poly. When you walk around the table it presents a tigers-eye shift that is quite pleasing.

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Daily Sudoku: Mon 19-Aug-2013

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Daily Monster Sudoku: Mon 19-Aug-2013

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Daily Squiggly Sudoku: Mon 19-Aug-2013

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Brain Teaser Table Is More Complicated Than Ikea, But Also More Fun - Gizmodo

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Capital Quiz: Monday, August 19 - The Dominion Post

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Free Game Friday: Addictive, rage-inducing logic puzzles - ITworld.com

Free Game Friday: Addictive, rage-inducing logic puzzles

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Mixing physics with logic puzzles that require a quick reaction as well as a well thought-out plan is a tough combination. Test your limits with Logic Color Infection. Start with a single brown ball and infect all the yellow balls by touching them in a ...

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Use Your Mind To Move Objects And Solve Puzzles In Telekinesis Kyle - AppAdvice

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Use Your Mind To Move Objects And Solve Puzzles In Telekinesis Kyle

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And if you think so, too, then you might appreciate, as I have, this recently released iOS game called Telekinesis Kyle. Telekinesis Kyle tells the story of the titular character, a nerdy kid who happens to have the titular superpower. At the beginning ...

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